Co-sell Coaching: Episode 1, Carve Partners - AMA
PLEASE NOTE: If you are planning to attend this event, please either use the 'Add to calendar' option below the "Attend" button, or create your own calendar reminder. Clicking attend will not automatically add this event to your calendar, and you will not receive any email notifications reminding you about the event. Join us for Co-sell Coaching, where your peer Microsoft partners will walk you through their best practices on how to co-sell effectively through the marketplace. Our first community event in this series will feature Carve Partners. Join to learn: Unlock Faster Growth: Why you should prioritize co-selling Get Started the Right Way: How to create a co-sell strategy and get started Maximize Your Impact: How to prioritize deals and build your co-sell pipeline Engage Microsoft Sellers: What to expect and how to get their attention Keep Winning: What to do after a co-sell win to build ongoing momentum Each Co-sell Coaching event features a live Q&A with Microsoft partners and Microsoft subject-matter experts.
Office hours for partners: Marketplace rewards for FY26
If you are a software company or channel partner selling through the Microsoft commercial marketplace, don’t miss our first Office Hours session of the new fiscal year! We start with an update on Marketplace Rewards for channel partners, which is now generally available for FY26. We then dive into the following topics and answer your questions live: Marketplace Rewards benefit tiers and changes from the pilot program Essential tips for utilizing Microsoft Azure Sponsorship to win multiparty private offer deals Lessons learned from successful partners Where can I access the deck? Click here to download the slides presented in this session of Office Hours. When is the next Office Hours session? Bookmark the Marketplace Community for announcements about upcoming Office Hours events. This event featured AI-generated captions during the live broadcast. Human-generated captions will be available by the end of the week.Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution
We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution. This Azure service offers native-like integration of Pure Storage's innovative enterprise-grade fully managed block Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) with Azure VMWare Solution (AVS) aiding seamless VMware migrations to the cloud along with scalability, simplicity and data resiliency. Azure Native Integrations enable you to easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate independent software vendor (ISV) software and services on Azure. By leveraging the power of Azure, Pure Storage Cloud Service offers you many benefits, including scaling flexibility, native Azure experience, unified billing, and cost-effectiveness. You can easily discover and sign up for this via the Azure Marketplace. "We’re pleased to see Pure Storage’s integration with Microsoft Azure Native service. Through this collaboration, Pure and Microsoft can better serve customer needs by enabling them to provision, use and manage Pure Storage on Azure just like other Azure services. With this integrated offering, Pure and Microsoft are helping customers to quickly leverage Pure's enterprise-grade storage with Azure cloud services securely to open up a whole new set of possibilities for customers bringing enterprise-scale environments to the cloud. Together, Pure and Microsoft are helping customers save time and operational overhead while driving innovation." - Scott Hunter, Vice President Product Management, Microsoft Developer Division. Gartner report from Sept 2024 states that by 2028, consumption-based storage as a service (STaaS) will replace over 33% of enterprise storage capital expenditure (capex), up from less than 15% in 2024. Pure Storage® is a pivotal storage player among the Enterprise customers in revolutionizing the storage, management and resiliency while ensuring flexibility. From AI to archive, Pure Storage delivers a seamless cloud migration experience with one unified Storage as-a-Service (STaaS) platform across on-premises, private and public cloud, and hybrid environments. They are a 11x consequent leaders in Gartner® Magic Quadrant report for Primary Storage Platforms, with highest rating in Execution & Vision. Thus proving why, they are undoubtedly the Enterprise favorites! Some key customers for Pure Storage include Meta, ServiceNow, AC Milan, Comcast and many more! Fig 1: Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage, Sep 2024, Gartner Inc. How will Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for AVS help me? Fully managed block-storage-as-a-service solution, providing decoupled scalability and flexibility across Compute and Storage solutions. Optimized Total Cost of Operations (TCO) up to 40% with data reduction and compression tools. Seamless data mobility and migrations of VMware workloads across on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud solutions to the Azure cloud. Enterprise-grade Data protection and Data resilience, with solutions such as Hybrid Disaster Recovery support in the roadmap. Get started with Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution Setup and subscribe to your Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud, available easily in the Azure Marketplace. You can start your journey free of cost and pay as you use the service. Look for “Pure Storage Cloud" in the Azure Marketplace and sign up via Contact Me button to show your interest for the preview. Fig 2: Contact Me offering on Azure Marketplace Once you have been allowlisted for the preview, you can also look for it using the search bar on Azure Portal or visit the marketplace on Azure portal to see the offer in your list of private plans. Fig 3: Searching for Azure Native Pure Storage via Azure portal Pure Storage in Marketplace private plans via Azure portal Provisioning a Storage Pool via Azure: Follow the instructions in the QuickStart to easily spin up your Pure Storage resource. Once you have created the Pure Storage resource on Azure, follow the simple steps in the Microsoft Learn docs, or navigate directly via the Overview blade to create Storage pools. 2. Quick-and-easy Connect to AVS: You can now easily connect your Pure Storage with your Azure VMWare Solution (AVS) using the “Connect” button in Storage pool. Resources Subscribe to the “Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution” available as Pay as You Go via Contact me in the Azure Marketplace. Create an Azure Native Pure Resource and storage pools via the service, see QuickStart: Get started with Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud Service in Microsoft Docs. To learn more, check out the Pure blog and Pure’s Press release. Learn more about the Pure Cloud Block Store and how to use it with AVS here.Co-sell Coaching: Episode 2, Abnormal Security - AMA
PLEASE NOTE: If you are planning to attend this event, please either use the 'Add to calendar' option below the "Attend" button, or create your own calendar reminder. Clicking attend will not automatically add this event to your calendar, and you will not receive any email notifications reminding you about the event. Join us for Co-sell Coaching, where your peer Microsoft partners will walk you through their best practices on how to co-sell effectively through the marketplace. Our second community event in this series will feature Brett Ferancy, Global Alliance Leader at Abnormal Security. Join to learn: The value of co-selling with Microsoft Proven best Practices for effective co-sell execution Scaling through the marketplace and multiparty private offers (MPOs) Each Co-sell Coaching event features a live Q&A with Microsoft partners and Microsoft subject-matter experts.Marketplace Business Central products available in CSP channel
Business Applications adds new offer types to Microsoft AppSource to assist Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners in building solutions with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform products when they transact through the commercial marketplace.
Private Marketplace collections permissions
To be able do delegate permissions in Private Marketplace, setting permissions on collections would be great. Currently only Marketplace Administrators (set on tenant level) can manage collections. On Enterprise level it would be great to able to delegate these permissions. We mainly can solve the problem to add a subscription to a collection. Using Management Groups as scope in Private Marketplace collections might be another option to solve that problem.Grow, Build, and Connect with Microsoft for Startups
Microsoft for Startups is a unique program designed to help startups become a Microsoft business partner, through access to technology, channels, markets and customers. Our teams work with startups around the world, providing them with free access to Azure, enterprise grade technical support, development tools and dedicated resources to effectively sell to enterprise customers. Tune into this session to learn more about the Microsoft for Startups program, a $500 million initiative to provide startups access to both the technology and customer base needed to build and grow their business. Join us on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 11:00am Pacific to learn more about this exciting program! https://microsoftcloudpartners.eventbuilder.com/event?eventid=r3d0g7Microsoft ISV AI envisioning Day: Identify and Prioritize Use Cases for AI Solutions
**Event Date & Time: September 9, 2025, 12:00 - 1:00 PM UTC+8 Singapore** Join us at Microsoft ISV AI Envisioning Day: Identify and Prioritize Use Cases for AI Solutions to explore exciting AI business opportunities and learn how to craft a comprehensive development plan for your AI solutions. This session empowers businesses to drive growth by introducing an envisioning framework to help you identify and prioritize the most impactful AI use cases for solution development. What to Expect During the Business Envisioning webinar, we will walk you through a comprehensive framework that will enable you to create a development plan for building AI applications. The session will cover: Business Envisioning: Understand how to identify and prioritize business use cases for AI solutions. Learn the importance of aligning AI initiatives with your business goals to maximize value. The Business, User Experience, and Technology Prioritization Framework: The business, experience, technology (BXT) framework enables ISVs to evaluate the potential of their use cases. See how this exercise helps ISVs structure the details of each use case to better evaluate their viability. Use Case Prioritization: Employ the BXT rankings as an agile method to evaluate and differentiate the value and learning opportunities of each use case being considered and then implement prioritization accordingly. Why Attend? By attending the Business Envisioning webinar, you will: Gain Valuable Insights: Learn from Microsoft experts about the latest trends and best practices in AI application development. Network with Peers: Connect with other ISVs and share experiences, challenges, and solutions. Accelerate Your AI Journey: Get practical advice and actionable steps to kickstart your AI projects and bring them to market faster. How to Register Register now for the Microsoft ISV AI Envisioning Day: Identify and Prioritize Use Cases for AI Solutions session. The session will be delivered in English. We look forward to seeing you at the Microsoft ISV AI Envisioning Day: Identify and Prioritize Use Cases for AI Solutions webinar and helping you unlock the full potential of AI for your business!Certified Software Designations: FY26 Benefits Updates
If you are a software development company selling through the Microsoft commercial marketplace, don’t miss this office hours session. Learn how to stand out to Microsoft customers and sellers -- and unlock the top-tier of benefits available to software development company partners. Walk away with a better understanding of: Certified software designation: What it is and why it matters FY26 updates: New benefits and incentives for designated partners Getting started: Steps to begin your designation journey Where can I access the deck? Click here to download the slides presented in this session of Office Hours. When is the next Office Hours session? Bookmark the Marketplace Community for announcements about upcoming Office Hours events. This event featured AI-generated captions during the live broadcast. Human-generated captions will be available by the end of the week.Prioritize your pipeline to sell more with less effort
Not all deals are created equally—some more likely to sell through Marketplace, others more likely to catch a sellers' attention. We'll share how to assess and prioritize your pipeline so you can focus on the deals most likely to convert. Learn: How to spot high-impact deals most likely to close via Marketplace. How to filter out distractions and stop wasting time on low-probability opportunities. How to identify what Microsoft sellers actually care about so your deals get noticed. Aug 13 - 10 AM PST | 1 PM EST ➡️ Learn more and register
